half past

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑːf ˌpɑːst/, (reduced) /ˈhɑːˌpɑːst/, /ˈhɑːpəs(t)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhæf ˌpæst/, (reduced) /ˈhæˌpæst/

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Noun

half past (uncountable)

1. Thirty minutes past any hour.

   My train's supposed to arrive at 2. Let's plan on meeting at half past.

Translations

"half past one" as example of usage in other languages

• Arabic: السَّاعَة وَالنِّصْف (as-sāʕa wa-n-niṣf), السَّاعَة الْوَاحِدَة وَالنِّصْف (as-sāʕa l-wāḥida wa-n-niṣf)
• Basque: bat ta erdi
• Bengali: দেড়টা বাজে (deṛoṭa baje), সাড়ে (bn) (śaṛe) (hour greater than 2)
• Catalan: dos quarts de dues
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 一點半／一点半 (jat¹ dim² bun³), 點半／点半 (dim² bun³)

  Mandarin: 一點半／一点半 (yī diǎn bàn)

• Dutch: half twee
• Esperanto: la unua kaj duono
• Estonian: pool kaks
• Faroese: hálvgum tvey
• Finnish: puoli kaksi
• French: et demie
• Georgian: ნახევარი (naxevari), ორის ნახევარი (oris naxevari)
• German: halb zwei (used with the following hour)
• Greek: και μισή (kai misí)
• Hindi: डेढ़ बजा (ḍeṛh bajā), ढाई बजे (ḍhāī baje), साढ़े (hi) (sāṛhe) (hour greater than 2)
• Hungarian: fél kettő (literally “half two”) (i.e., half of the second hour)
• Indonesian: setengah dua
• Japanese: 一時半 (いちじはん, ichijihan)
• Khmer: ម៉ោងមួយកន្លះ (km) (maong muəy kɑnlah)
• Korean: 한시 반 (hansi ban)
• Maltese: is-siegħa u nofs
• Persian: ساعت یک و نیم (sâ'at yek o nim)
• Polish: wpół do drugiej (used with the following hour)
• Portuguese: uma e meia
• Romanian: unu și jumătate
• Russian: полвторо́го (ru) (polvtoróvo), полови́на второ́го (polovína vtoróvo), час три́дцать (čas trídcatʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: pola dva (used with the following hour)
• Slovak: pol druhej
• Spanish: una y media
• Swahili: saa saba na nusu (literally “hour seven and a half”)
• Swedish: halv två
• Turkish: saat bir buçuk
• Urdu: دیڑھ بجا (ḍeṛh bajā), ڈھائی بجے (ḍhāī baje), ساڑھے (sāṛhe) (hour greater than 2)
• Vietnamese: một giờ rươi
• Welsh: hanner awr wedi un